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Best VPS for gramps (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by rambos@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello selfhosters,

I need recommendation for cheap VPS that I will use to host gramps only. Gramps is selfhosted app for building family tree.

I tested gramps in docker container on my home server and its awesome, check it out. My home server is not open to public (accessing it using wireguard only) and I would like to give access to some family members (3-4) for gramps. I thought its best to pay for cheap VPS and run gramps only to avoid any security issues on my home network.

I believe performance and storage requirements fit in any cheapest model, but not sure which VPS is the easiest to setup. I have my own domain from porkbun, but I have never set SSL certs properly before and I have never used VPS. I see this as a great opportunity to learn, but also to make some family members happy <3

I'm eying servercheap.com and it says in description "1 IPv4", but then it offers "Add'l Ipv4 Addresses" for 9$. I'm bit lost here and I'm not even sure do I need IPv4 address. Maybe I can run duckdns or ddclient to avoid additional cost?

How is your experience with servercheap? Is there anything better for similar price?

Also, any tips for building server like that are appreciated. I was thinking Debian 11 + gramps in docker container since I'm familiar with that setup.

Cheers

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[–] controlphreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can use the Gramps desktop app on your normal computer and then host a frontend using Gramps.js

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What makes it different from running official docker container? This demo login screen looks exactly the same, but doesnt work tho. Screenshot from the link looks the same as well

[–] controlphreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what you mean by "official docker container" because Gramps is desktop software and doesn't have a container. The GrampsWeb / Gramps.js is the web interface for browsing it, that can run in a Docker container, but is developed separately.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Grmps is completely new to me, didnt even know about desktop app before I deployed docker. Found it on awesome selfhosted. So i used this one thinking its what everyone is doing 🙃

[–] controlphreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No worries. Gramps (desktop) is where I do work on my main tree, and then personally I will do a one-way sync (so that it can't "corrupt" my tree) up to my GrampsWeb docker frontend so that the rest of my family can view the data.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CF	CloudFlare
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx	Popular HTTP server

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[–] tun@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a 5 USD per month VPS on Vultr.com

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Their price plan says there is 10GB version for 3.5$, but the cheapest one I could take is 5$ for 25GB. Still good, I took it and so far so good. Thx